<p>That's a good suggestion raised by Lorena, there is strong need for disabilities to use and maximize the internet and I strongly see the internet as an avenue to compensate for their loss. The same issue was raised during Netmundia meeting in Brazil but I doubt it weather they really give attention to it. @ Williams and folks, how do u think we can stand and help the disabilities have part in IoT.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 14, 2014 3:00 PM, "Deirdre Williams" <<a href="mailto:williams.deirdre@gmail.com">williams.deirdre@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Let me add to Lorena's suggestion of a youth category, (made on the Bestbits list this morning) the need to have a constant voice for people with disabilities. Judy Okite has provided this for the last few years, but she has finished her term of appointment. She made this suggestion herself at the last MAG meeting in Istanbul. Since one billion people around the world suffer from some disability, and the Internet can offer considerable relief for them, they are the holders of a very significant "stake".</div><div>Sadly it is easy to forget if one does not suffer from a disability oneself, which is why it is so important to have a dedicated voice for these stakeholders in all such groups.</div><div>Deirdre</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div>“The fundamental cure for poverty is not money but knowledge" Sir William Arthur Lewis, Nobel Prize Economics, 1979</div>
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